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To put it mildly, millennials (and to some extent Gen X and Gen Z) aren't fond of baby boomers. Boomers hogged the economy and the world’s resources, we say, and they have no regard for what future generations will inherit.

But when Reddit user u/coolfreeusername asked the question, "Non-boomers ... , what's your most boomer opinion?" it led to a pretty awesome discovery. Turns out, younger generations and baby boomers share quite a few thoughts. Here are some of them.

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Millennials And Gen-Z Are Sharing Their Most "Boomer" Opinions, But They Just Make Sense (35 Answers) Having your kid go “viral” for some stupid thing he did or just crying is a way to humiliate them and you are a disgusting parent for making the whole world laugh at them

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's what's so great about animals. Your dog doesn't care if he's famous for doing something stupid in a viral video, but your child will hate you forever!

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Millennials And Gen-Z Are Sharing Their Most "Boomer" Opinions, But They Just Make Sense (35 Answers) Not everything needs to be filmed and put on the internet

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Very true. Some people genuinely don't believe something happened if you don't post it and brag about it. I had that situation with people convincing me that I didn't accomplish something just because they didn't see photos on social networks and therefore concluded beyond any doubt that the event never occured. The paper proof was not sufficient.

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Millennials And Gen-Z Are Sharing Their Most "Boomer" Opinions, But They Just Make Sense (35 Answers) I don't want my damn refrigerator connected to the internet. It has one job.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I will never want any smart kitchen thingys. Basically anything connected to the internet can be taken over by a skilled hacker

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Millennials And Gen-Z Are Sharing Their Most "Boomer" Opinions, But They Just Make Sense (35 Answers) Just because we have access to instant communication doesn't mean I'm obligated to message you back immediately.

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Miss Cris
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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I don't think that it's related to one generation. I know very old people, old, middle aged, young, teenagers that only check once or twice a day. And other people from different ages who are always wanting to answer or write immediately. For example, my father and my mother do opposite, and my two sisters, too.

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Millennials And Gen-Z Are Sharing Their Most "Boomer" Opinions, But They Just Make Sense (35 Answers) Just because I disagree with your opinion doesn't mean I hate you, I don't need to agree with everything just to be politically correct. You can still disagree and be cordial. We seem to have forgotten that.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's such an immature way of thinking to conflate disagree with hate. You see it with preschoolers. You can hate the opinion and still like the person (you can also agree with the opinion and hate the person, but that's a different thing).

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Millennials And Gen-Z Are Sharing Their Most "Boomer" Opinions, But They Just Make Sense (35 Answers) Social Media was a mistake. I genuinely think that it is single-handedly one of if not the most damaging thing to the world that's happened in the past however many years.

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Miss Cris
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

As an activist, I can say that social media has changed a lot of things in visibility, meeting people and communication of filmed things that were hidden before. There're also good things.

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Millennials And Gen-Z Are Sharing Their Most "Boomer" Opinions, But They Just Make Sense (35 Answers) No phones when you're eating with someone

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I consider it acceptable to look stuff on your phone if someone has a question that can be answered with a quick check, but that's IT. No texting, no facebook, no ignoring your dinner companions.

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#9

Millennials And Gen-Z Are Sharing Their Most "Boomer" Opinions, But They Just Make Sense (35 Answers) No one wants to listen to your music. Turn it down/ roll up your windows, or better yet... both.

No one thinks your loud car/motorcycle is cool. Drive like a normal human being around town. If you want to drive fast, get some track days.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I don't want to listen to my neighbour's screaming kids either, so I turn up de volume.

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Millennials And Gen-Z Are Sharing Their Most "Boomer" Opinions, But They Just Make Sense (35 Answers) Children are so coddled and over protected nowadays. Bring back the playgrounds of yesteryear where the monkey bars were sky high and the merry-go-round could go mach 5. If the little f***ers fall and get a bruise, they'll know not to be a dumbass next time (an invaluable life lesson). Teach them how to responsibly handle dangerous objects like knives and garden tools. The way we're raising children today is one of the main reasons we have so many stupid ass adults with no valuable life skills and a god complex cuz they think their actions don't effect them

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Those playgrounds are still the norm in Germany, thank God. American parents regularly freak ;)

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howdylee
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I don't disagree. However, "back in the day" if you fell and broke something, no big deal to go to the hospital and get patched up. Nowadays going to the hospital could mean financial ruin to some families - and for that reason it's better not to take unnecessary risks.

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Aisling Raye
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I may get downvotes to hell for this but children are built to fall down. They are clumsy and uncordinated because they haven't learned how not to be. Evolution has made them resilient for just this reason. We are animals, our bodies are built for the learning curve of growing up. Think about how your kid fell that one time and was just fine but if you took the same fall you'd break. When I worked worked on emergency medicine we would joke that small kids bounce when adults would break. It's dark humor but it's reality in most cases.

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Sandra
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Actually its completely True. People are just too worried about every single s**t în this world when Kids will actually be just fine. He has a boo boo? Thats ok, we all did at some point and we are still alive.

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Leah L
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So interesting back story here. In the 80s in nyc several children were seriously injured on the old school style playgrounds. After several lawsuits playgrounds started switching to the current plastic “safe” model. Only issue? Playground injuries have rocketed since then. If you fall off a playground of plastic and hit your head it’s still a serious fall. But now kids are lulled into a false sense of security as are parents and are not as careful causing more injuries. When we were kids we knew those things were dangerous and we better watch out!

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Stille20
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There is a reason they got more safe. It's all fun and games until your kid gets a head injury. However, they do need anenvironment to test their limits.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I grew up in the 80s - we all had our own knives, so we could whittle, I handled power tools from about 8 years old, our parents never knew where we were - we came home when it got dark, there was no child safety on anything and not one kid in my town got seriously hurt, most of us didn't even break anything.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I loved when, in the film Captain Fantastic, the father explained that his children had scratches and blue markes as a sign that they are alife and learning.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

i agree that children should be taught self-sufficiency and be able to make their own mistakes, but not if the consequence to their decision is severely dangerous. there’s nothing wrong with safety measures. kids, especially little ones, can get seriously injured or killed from something as silly as falling off the monkey bars

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yes. More than that, kids always seem to find plenty of opportunities to get hurt on their own, I don't see the point of intentionally retrofitting playground hazards.

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M O'Connell
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Although I think it is a good thing that the era of the white-hot stainless steel playground slide has passed.

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James016
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

We still have those in the uk. I only really worry for my son because of his extreme hyper mobility. Otherwise knock yourself out.

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Scott Found
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Still can remember the sound of bare skin on the 270 degree metal sliding board...ALL THE WAY DOWN. Superb.

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Lucy Snatchko
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

when i was in elementary school (won't say my age but i'm a 2000s kid) i had my own swiss army knife and i'd ride my bike all day in summertime, with all my friends running around in creeks full of sulfur water with no shoes. those were the best times of my life.

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Suzi Gauthier
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yeah, a lot of kids died. That's why the rules changed. Smart humans learn. We get a little more civilized with each generation. I'm sure the parents who beat their kids senseless in the old days thought the next generation was pussies too.

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Jane Alexander
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They're not coddling the children, they're afraid of lawsuits. It's about money, always about money.

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Katherine Boag
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If your kid falls off those monkey bars wrong and breaks their neck tho...

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ThatOneWriter
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The way we raise kids *today* does not affect the adults we have *today*. You can blame that on things from the "yesteryears'. I agree some things are too restrictive now, but the logical fallacy here is common and it influences people when it shouldn't.

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Karl Baxter
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

When I was a kid we had properly exciting playground stuff like the Witch’s Hat that knocked out my mate’s front teeth when he misjudged jumping on it. Chalked it up to experience but today’s litigation culture always makes it someone else’s fault.

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CatWoman312
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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There’s no such thing as an injury free playground. Kids will be kids and there’s no need to treat them as if the world is this big safe space because it’s not.

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Wheeskers
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Not to mention forcing the little angles to wear a yellow safety vest. Seen it. 40 something first time moms are insane.

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Mazer
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I don’t like sweeping generalizations. I have seen young moms handle things like a pro, And I have seen the exact opposite where moms think that handing a child of fun to play with it’s perfectly OK as a distraction. And I rarely ever see kids playing outside these days. When I was a kid we came home finished her homework and were told not come back into the house until the sun was down, In the summertime our parents left for work and we were on our own everyday for the entire summer. Half the time our parents have no idea where we were. They gave us basic safety protocol just like they told us don’t steal stuff or there’s going to be repercussions…sometimes we learned the hard way

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I get the sentiment here, but we all understand that its a good thing not to have lead in household paint, i don't think extra safety guidelines is a bad thing. You can teach young kids al you want but their brains have not developed the ability to form reason yet, so............

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

no way i couldn't agree more. our yazoo mower had exposed fan belts and no side deck guards - plus it would keep running if you walked off - if you stuck you foot in there, well - "you shouldent have done that"

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Tracey Brogan
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Our play ground was normal, they ripped it out and put this extra daredevil thing up instead.

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Janet C
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Today's playscapes look like hamster habitrails. They are boring, super-safe, and completely squash creativity and bravely trying something new.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

THANK YOU FOR POSTING! These nutty young people! 😎

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Can not agree with this more! While you're at it teach your kids: some simple sewing, how to do their own laundry, some easy meals (age appropriate) how to change a flat tire and how to keep/balance a checkbook.

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Barbara Vandewalle
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I grew with the slides, monkey bars, etc. and we all survived. So what if we got a bruise, we learned to be more careful. No one was at fault.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This one festival I go to every year has an old playground with one of those crazy merry go wheels, and flying off that thing hurt but was also fun af

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm guessing whoever made this meme either doesn't have kids yet or doesn't give a crap about them. Playgrounds are now safer (and more inclusive to people with disabilities) because lawsuits are expensive. Dangerous things doesn't make for tougher children -- it makes for fewer dead or disabled ones. What's more, kids used to play on playground equipment when they were much older than they do now. Now it's mainly for ages 1-maybe 8.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Same when I was a kid. Learn to judge if you can handle the green ring on the rocketship. That may be learned by finding out the hard way. So many other things in our playground and we usually went with at least one other kid to play with. No adult. Only one kid ever seriously hurt. A broken arm. We used to run everywhere so we were pretty fast. So, one kid ran home with the news. All that activity helped our coordination and judgement. So helicopter parents, if stairs are involved in your home, never let your kid go down them without supervision. Its a long way down. They might get hurt. Maybe an airbag to land on.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Wait, what ? Haven't been to a playground in years. Has this really happened ? Sigh.

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marianne eliza
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Lawsuit happy people looking to never have work another day in their lives.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Don't lump all parents together, please. I have no problem with my kid scraping her knees or falling down.

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Nikole
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Literally ALL of the playground equipment my grammar school had was unsafe, but we had a lot of fun. Oh the 80s/90s. Of course it's been replaced now with the plastic stuff.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

i have got cut while playing with sharp things (knives, scissors, tape dispensers, pencils...) but i never learn. i cut my hand open on a blade bc i wanted to prove to my cousin that it was not sharp. it was.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Can't do that because today's parents don't believe in minor accidents and want to place the blame on someone, they gotta get paid, and lawyers are crawling out of the woodwork. If we had more common sense, were less entitled and opportunistic and took personal responsibility, maybe we could get back to a saner state of mind all around. It'll never happen though. Entitlement breeds entitlement.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

im the first child so as long as you don't bleed a lot ur fine ;)

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Dustin Garza
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Well if we had reliable and reasonable health care in this country maybe this would be the best option.

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Lauren
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

A kid isn't ready for adulthood until they've burned their butt on a metal slide on a sunny day.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The school playground near my house removed all and and bark and replaced it with thick rubber foam mats......

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

But children can't go anywhere on foot anymore. Is there a playground or park within walking distance of your home? With sidewalks all the way?

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Millennials And Gen-Z Are Sharing Their Most "Boomer" Opinions, But They Just Make Sense (35 Answers) Physical keyboards are better.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If you do touch typing, you NEED a physical keyboard.

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Late to the party but a lot of pop music today is overly sexual, especial Cardi B. I really don’t want to be out at the bar listening to how you suck dick and have a vagina.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm not a fan of the Beatles (unpopular opinion, but I had to listen and study a lot of their music during my A Levels and my satiation point was reached a long time ago), but I actually miss the days when lyrics really were as innocent as "I wanna hold your hand".

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Millennials And Gen-Z Are Sharing Their Most "Boomer" Opinions, But They Just Make Sense (35 Answers) I hate how literally everything these days has a stupid app that you need to have in order to use it. Everything from kids toys to freakin cars needs some sort of crappy app these days. Why!? What if you plan on having this item for a long while and the app either gets deleted, gets malware, or just doesn't function due to the company not updating it? You would have to throw it out causing more waste in this world. This is planned obsolescence just disguised as being technologically advanced.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Also, new power adapters with EVERYTHING, without even asking, so all those lovely polluting circuit boards inside end up in landfill!

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Stop helicoptering your kids and let them go outside and scrape their knees and drink from the hose.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Exactly. And hosing down a child covered in mud in the garden is not child abuse Dr Phill. I don't have kids, which is probably best.

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TikTok is stupid.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I follow subs on tiktok that are informational the animal videos and some comedic ones and people that make miniatures some cooking ones that are aged 35-to i think the oldest man I follow is in his 80s. I don't ever see anyone dancing or any of the people that are considered famous

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Millennials And Gen-Z Are Sharing Their Most "Boomer" Opinions, But They Just Make Sense (35 Answers) Kids absolutely shouldn't have cell phones or tablets or whatever thing like that.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Depends on what you let them do with it. My son has an iPad but it is severely restricted. He can’t get to anything but the bbc bitsize website and only has access to the educational apps. At 6.30 in the evening it locks out until 7am the next day.

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People are far too thin skinned. Stop taking everything so personally and learn to handle things you don't like hearing.

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Millennials And Gen-Z Are Sharing Their Most "Boomer" Opinions, But They Just Make Sense (35 Answers) Quit spending money on stupid stuff that you won’t want in a year and put it towards saving for the future.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This picture is so funny and the people look so ridiculous.

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Millennials And Gen-Z Are Sharing Their Most "Boomer" Opinions, But They Just Make Sense (35 Answers) People use their phones too much, particularly for texting and social media. Getting upset because your girlfriend/boyfriend hasn't texted you back for a few hours, or hasn't liked your photo, is so unhealthy.

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Mike Crow
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The generation before boomers said the same thing about telephones because how many teenagers waited around the house waiting for their bf/gf to call.

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Being on time for casual social events matters.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I generally agree, but it depends on what's standard for your group of friends. For casual get-togethers at my house, my good friends always show up 15 minutes late. That's because they know I'm running around trying to make everything perfect right up to the last minute, and that 15 minutes gives me a chance to sit down and relax for a moment. On the other hand, we invited a couple for dinner a few weeks ago, and they were more than an hour late (with no text, phone call, or apology). I was really annoyed, but they apparently thought it was pretty standard practice. Maybe in their circle of friends it is.

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#23

Sending out thank you notes when you receive a gift from someone. My mom was always big on that and I understand why. I bought an expensive gift for my friends birthday and she never messaged me or said thank you for the gift. Saying thank you isn’t that hard and it means a lot to the person.

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Cancel culture is stupid. Everyone is stupid when they're young and dumb. You make bad decisions sometimes and the you you are today isn't necessarily the you that you used to be. Social media should have a 7 year mandatory erase period. Any tweet or fb post or whatever disappears after 7 years permanently.

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Millennials And Gen-Z Are Sharing Their Most "Boomer" Opinions, But They Just Make Sense (35 Answers) Posting your kids on social media

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Anne
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Unrecognizable is ok. You don't want their faces picked up by creeps and used in videos. And yes, that happens.

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Millennials And Gen-Z Are Sharing Their Most "Boomer" Opinions, But They Just Make Sense (35 Answers) Our society is wayyyyyyy too materialistic. Most people can't go one year without "upgrading" their phone or buying the latest and greatest GPU. Your last year's model will work just fine.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My gaming pc is 12 years old and still works fine. I upgraded my iPhone a couple of years ago. Went from a 6 to a XS.

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Millennials And Gen-Z Are Sharing Their Most "Boomer" Opinions, But They Just Make Sense (35 Answers) Flannel shirts are amazing, and should be a part of everybody’s wardrobe for fall/winter

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Am 29:

If the conversation is going to take more than 3-5 texts (or emails), just call me.

Social media is bad for your health. Social media is not real life. Never take anything said on Twitter/Facebook/Reddit seriously.

Kids these days need to go play outside more.

Participation trophies are stupid. This is coming from someone who had a few as a kid.

Taxes aren't hard to figure out, especially if you don't own a house.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"Kids need to play outside more." Society proceeds to make the outside dangerous or illegal to be. "Kids and their stupid phones ..."

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#29

Millennials And Gen-Z Are Sharing Their Most "Boomer" Opinions, But They Just Make Sense (35 Answers) There's too many subscription services for s**t.

It's nice to have access to unlimited movies and TV, but like. For the most part I wind up just watching the same sitcom over and over to decompress after work. I wonder how much I could have saved by just getting B99 and King of the Hill box sets instead of paying for Hulu for four years.

And anything where they mail you a box of curated crap every month is absolutely unnecessary, toot f***ing sweet.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yes! I grew up before channel 5 and usually something to watch, but with 600+ channels of sky TV I'm often stuck because it's all trash or repeats.

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#30

Millennials And Gen-Z Are Sharing Their Most "Boomer" Opinions, But They Just Make Sense (35 Answers) I don't like e-books. I only read books that are printed on paper. It's just much more satisfying.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ebooks take up less space though. And they allow me to bring an entire library with me on a bus or train.

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#31

Millennials And Gen-Z Are Sharing Their Most "Boomer" Opinions, But They Just Make Sense (35 Answers) I like physical buttons. Not everything needs to be on a touchpad.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Especially in cars. Moving the HVAC controls to a screen is dangerous.

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That society is slowly putting much more emphasis on people accepting their faults than working on them.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Not working on your faults is also fine...as long as you're willing to accept the consequences that come with that. If I accept the fact that I'm an asshole and don't want to work on it I also need to accept that I'm going to lose friends and alienate people.

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A culture of immediate gratification and excess of creature comforts begets a spoiled population. There's something to be said for the character that can be built through patience and powering through adversity.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I agree about instant gratification and the importance of patience and hard work, but I also think it's important to separate that from this kind of messed up idea western culture has that suffering makes you a better person. There's a difference between instant access to luxury items vs to necessary resources (affordable food, water, shelter, healthcare, and in this day and age, internet. To clarify, I'm not saying everyone needs social media, I'm saying it is nearly impossible to go to school or work today without access to online resources.)

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Millennials And Gen-Z Are Sharing Their Most "Boomer" Opinions, But They Just Make Sense (35 Answers) Teenagers are scary. Mainly in groups of 3+

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I don't agree with scary, but I find them incredibly annoying. And often a bit ridiculous.

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Millennials And Gen-Z Are Sharing Their Most "Boomer" Opinions, But They Just Make Sense (35 Answers) My back hurts

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